PET Study Guide 2026
Everything you need to pass the PET exam in one place: the exam format, every topic to study, real practice questions with explanations, flashcards, and full-length practice tests. Free, no sign-up needed.
📋 PET Exam Format at a Glance
📚 PET Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample PET Questions & Answers
1. A candidate says: 'There is a man. He is old. He sits.' How could this be improved for the PET speaking test?
Combining sentences with relative clauses and adding descriptive detail shows a higher level of spoken English.
2. In a PET Part 4 longer conversation, a woman says: 'I've always wanted to visit Japan, and last summer I finally did.' When did she visit Japan?
She says she 'finally did' visit last summer, confirming she went there last summer.
3. Which of the following is an example of a compound sentence?
A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction like 'and.'
4. Which sentence correctly uses 'despite'?
'Despite' must be followed by a noun or gerund (-ing form), not a clause with a subject.
5. Choose the sentence where 'its' is used correctly:
'Its' as a possessive pronoun (without apostrophe) correctly modifies 'profits' in this sentence.
6. Identify the error: 'Despite of the rain, they continued playing football.'
'Despite' is never followed by 'of'; the correct form is simply 'Despite the rain'.